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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing

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